We are using a Windows Server 2008 R2 for image deployment with Windows Deployment Services. We boot pc's from the network and load either a deply or capture.wim. The loading of those files, as well as the actual image, is pretty slow. Sometimes it's a little faster but I don't see a reason for it. The network switches are unmanaged 3Com's at 100Mbps. Usually the pc is connected directly to the same switch as the WDS server. Does anyone know a trick to speed this up?

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For example, the very first bootfile which gets loaded (boot.sdi or something?), used to flash by in only 1 second, now it takes 5 second. The next file, it's either deploy.wim or capture.wim, takes about a minute to load while it used to take 20 seconds. A reboot of the server speeds it up for a while but not to the old values.